. Pictorial history of the great Civil War : embracing full and authentic accounts of battles by land and sea ... . PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT CONFEDERATE K)RTRAIT8 OF SOME OF THE LEADERS OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERAOY. FARMIKGTON AND RTJSSELS HOUSE. 117 roads and bridges which could facilitatethe approach of the National troops hadbeen destroyed. On the east there wasa ravine, and Philips Creek in the north there was a heavy abatis,with a cleared space in front. At everyroad-crossing, along their exterior linesthere were either strong redoubts or bat-teries with massive epaulment
. Pictorial history of the great Civil War : embracing full and authentic accounts of battles by land and sea ... . PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT CONFEDERATE K)RTRAIT8 OF SOME OF THE LEADERS OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERAOY. FARMIKGTON AND RTJSSELS HOUSE. 117 roads and bridges which could facilitatethe approach of the National troops hadbeen destroyed. On the east there wasa ravine, and Philips Creek in the north there was a heavy abatis,with a cleared space in front. At everyroad-crossing, along their exterior linesthere were either strong redoubts or bat-teries with massive epaulments. Beau-regard was nothing if not an engineer;and it is not at all unreasonable to con-clude that in throwing up those power-ful works around Corinth, he bore inmind that he was about to test the skillof an engineer like himself and a fellowWest-Pointer. The Confederate army concentratedat Corinth was composed of first classelements. There were the soldiers ofShiloh, the army which had foughtat Pittsburg Landing; those of Elk-horn, the combined army of VanDornand Price, from Arkansas and Missouri;and the forces under Greneral Lovell,which had evacuated Ne
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